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Growing up the son of a foreign services officer, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church assistant rector, the Rev. Oliver Jones, 59, has led an eclectic life — and that is a good thing both for him and his flock, since he is an ordained Lutheran minister. “The Mass will always seem the same really, whether…

[Discernment Committee News Release]:  The Discernment Committee on July 23 announced the dates that nominations and applications will be open, and the anticipated launch of a Web site specific to work being done in preparation for nominations and screening of nominees for bishop coadjutor,…

She graduated from all-female Bryn Mawr College in 1995, where she came out as a lesbian and also as a woman called to the priesthood. After college, she graduated from Harvard Divinity School, married her girlfriend, became an Episcopal priest, changed her name — and changed her gender.

From "Lobster on the Lawn" and "Mass on the Grass" to "Chapel Camp" and "Free Food for Kids," Episcopal churches across eastern Massachusetts welcome you to join them for summer prayer, fun, fellowship and service.  Use the links below to learn more.  Christ Church in Andover is…

The Nights of Hospitality will be able to continue serving Wareham’s homeless with a $2,000 grant that will help the organization purchase and install carbon monoxide sensors to bring the shelters up to code.

Almighty God, giver of all good things:We thank you for the natural majesty and beauty of this land.They restore us, though we often destroy them.Heal us. We thank you for the great resources of this nation. They make us rich, though we often exploit them.Forgive us. We thank you for the men and…

A growing number of mainline Protestant churches in New England are calling upon their denominations to divest from fossil fuel companies in an effort to cast unlimited coal, oil, and gas production as immoral as well as environmentally unsustainable. 

Corporate prayer is a gift to the church, the Standing Committee says in a July 1 invitation to the diocesan community to pray over the summer months for the nomination, election and transition process that is underway for a bishop coadjutor to succeed the Rt. Rev. M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE when he…

The Rt. Rev. M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, released the following statement today: "I know that I rejoice with many Episcopalians of our diocese in eastern Massachusetts and across the Episcopal Church because of the Supreme Court’s decision today that the…

The Church of the Messiah this summer is celebrating its stone church and the man who built it, Church of the Messiah, Woods Hole as well as its mission in the village of Woods Hole. “Honoring the Past,…